This is the shocking moment a loose moose in Russia sent an elderly woman flying after attacking her.
The video showed the woman walking her dog in the southwestern town of Salavat before a noise out of sight caused her to turn and let out a piercing scream.
The baby moose lunges forward with its legs outstretched and then bursts into the frame before lunging at the woman, smashing her face with its bulky shoulder and knocking her to the ground.
The woman slides across the rough ground as her dog scrambles out of the way, and the couple stares helplessly and bewildered as the moose disappears from sight.
The entire drama unfolds in a matter of seconds and would be almost unbelievable if it weren’t for the camera positioned to capture the entire scene.
Local reports suggest that the animal, which arrived from the nearby forest, was frightened by the barking of the woman’s small dog.
The moose shoots and knocks the woman down, hitting her with its shoulder.
The woman falls dramatically to the ground as the moose enters and exits the shot.
The woman is thrown to the ground and lies on the ground as Pug watches helplessly.
The baby moose ran wild in the southwestern city of Salavat for several days before crashing into the woman in front of the camera.
Rangers were called in to try to sedate the beast and return it to its natural habitat, but they were unable to stop it from reaching residential areas.
The moose were seen on CCTV cameras near a local hypermarket and on other streets, but were later lost.
“The animal ran into the field,” said Radik Muratov, the city’s head of civil defense and emergency situations.
Ultimately, tragedy struck when the moose ran across a road in front of a black car on the outskirts of Salavat.
Reports say the moose was killed instantly and the car was heavily damaged.
Moose are not naturally aggressive animals, but they are territorial and can become angry when harassed or intimidated by people, dogs, and traffic, or when they are hungry and tired.
They are often more prone to aggression during their mating season in late September and October, but settlement expansion and habitat destruction has led to a steady increase in reports of incidents with humans.
Human deaths involving moose are rare, and experts say most occur almost exclusively from car accidents.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game recommends being patient with moose, even if it takes half an hour.
The moose was seen on CCTV cameras near a local hypermarket and on other streets.
The moose ran amok through the city of 156,000 for days before being hit and killed.
Baby moose seen wandering around Russian city
A loud noise can move the animal, but those that are used to people are not easily scared away.
A moose calf tends to weigh between 28 and 35 pounds (13-16 kg), up to 45 pounds (22 kg).
An adult moose can weigh up to 453 kg (1,000 lb).
This week, an Alaskan man was attacked and killed by a moose while trying to take photographs of his two newborn calves in Homer, a small town on Kachemak Bay, United States.
The female moose, which had recently given birth to calves, is believed to have kicked or stomped on Chroman as he and a companion desperately tried to flee, state troopers said.
